i have been planning my sets, i started with the tube train here are the tube plans, i made several versons and changed things due to size, practicallity of making etc. i found the measuremts for a 1972 service tube online, each carriage is 2.87 metes in hight, 15.98 meters in length and 2.64 meters in width, seating 44people per cariage. with my armiture being 20cm high, divided by 5 makes 4cm= 1 foot. this is going to be the rought scale i will be working with. so h = 2.87m = 9.41 feet = 37 cm. L = 15.98m = 49.21 feet = 196cm. W = 2.64m = 8.61 feet = 30cm. the length is much too long and would be impractical to buildit at that length. so as much as i want to stick to the correct measurements i will be scaling the length down to about 80cm, i is alot but its to make it easyer to construct, paint in detail and transport.
i have now started building the tube, i used these plans to work from and measure but its size has shrunk quite abit due to the practicallity of making the tube, the materials available, thickness of the materials, after moulding and trimming the materials to the right size and shape i lost alot of the original scale however i am hapy with the construction and it would be very difficult to handle if it where any bigger, so i am now reworking my scale, so it is now more like 1.5 cm = 1 foot. due to this new scale my armiture is now much smaller but this does make some things easyer and some things more difficult but i am pleased with this, i have re worked the scale and am now drawing up plans for the rest of the sets and plan to have the basic structures all compleate by next week.
